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You may see a stranger : stories / Paula Whyman.

By:

Whyman, Paula

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Evanston, IL : TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press , 2016Description: 202 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780810133532

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

FIC WHY

LOC classification:

PS3623.H94 Y68 2016

Contents:

Driver's education -- Drosophila -- You may see a stranger -- Dubrovnik 1989 -- Transfigured night -- Jump -- Bad side in -- Threat potential -- Self report -- Just sex.

Summary: Miranda Weber is a hot mess. In Paula Whyman's debut collection of stories, we find her hoarding duct tape to ward off terrorists, stumbling into a drug run with a crackhead, and - frequently - enduring the bad behavior of men. A drivers' education class pulsing with racial tension is the unexpected context of her sexual awakening. As she comes of age, and in the three decades that follow, the potential for violence always hovers nearby. She's haunted by the fate of her disabled sister and - thanks to the crack cocaine epidemic of the '80s, the wars in the Middle East, and sniper attacks--the threat of crime and terror in her hometown of Washington, D.C. Miranda can be lascivious, sardonic, and maddeningly self-destructive, but, no matter what befalls her, she never loses her sharp wit or powers of observation, which illuminate both her own life and her strange, unsettling times.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC WHY (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		053234

Driver's education -- Drosophila -- You may see a stranger -- Dubrovnik 1989 -- Transfigured night -- Jump -- Bad side in -- Threat potential -- Self report -- Just sex.

Miranda Weber is a hot mess. In Paula Whyman's debut collection of stories, we find her hoarding duct tape to ward off terrorists, stumbling into a drug run with a crackhead, and - frequently - enduring the bad behavior of men. A drivers' education class pulsing with racial tension is the unexpected context of her sexual awakening. As she comes of age, and in the three decades that follow, the potential for violence always hovers nearby. She's haunted by the fate of her disabled sister and - thanks to the crack cocaine epidemic of the '80s, the wars in the Middle East, and sniper attacks--the threat of crime and terror in her hometown of Washington, D.C. Miranda can be lascivious, sardonic, and maddeningly self-destructive, but, no matter what befalls her, she never loses her sharp wit or powers of observation, which illuminate both her own life and her strange, unsettling times.

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